Risk Quantification and Visualization Method for Loss-of-Control Scenarios in Flight

This paper proposes a flight risk analysis method that combines risk assessment and visual deduction to study the causes of flight accidents, specifically the loss of control caused by failure factors. The goal is to explore the impact of these failure factors on loss-of-control events and illustrate the risk evolution under different scenarios...

Effect of white mud on properties of alkali activated slag

White mud is a solid waste from the papermaking industry, composed mainly of CaCO₃ and residual alkali metal ions (such as Na+, Mg²⁺). In the current study, the feasibility of using white mud as partial replacement of slag in alkali activated materials is explored. The fluidity, setting time, autogenous shrinkage,...

Photophysical Characterization of Ru Nanoclusters on Nanostructured TiO₂ by Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy

Despite the promising performance of Ru nanoparticles or nanoclusters on nanostructured TiO₂ in photocatalytic and photothermal reactions, a mechanistic understanding of the photophysics is limited. The aim of this study is to uncover the nature of light-induced processes in Ru/TiO₂ and the role of UV versus visible...

International benchmark study on numerical simulation of flooding and motions of a damaged cruise ship

Large cruise ships can carry 10 000 persons onboard, and consequently, survivability of the ship in the event of a flooding accident is essential. Many designers are already conducting advanced damage stability analyses beyond the regulatory requirements. With increased computing capacity, survivability analyses, by using time-domain...

Coding Techniques for Noisy Channels with Gain and/or Offset Mismatch

Data transmission is ubiquitous in all walks of life, ranging from basic home and office appliances like compact disc players and hard disk drives to deep space communication. More often than not, the communication and storage channels are noisy, and data might be distorted during transmission. However, noise is not the only disturbance during...

Decoding of Concatenated Codes for Noisy Channels With Unknown Offset

In communication and storage systems, noise and interference are not the only<br/>disturbances during the data transmission, sometimes the error performance is also seriously degraded by offset mismatch. We consider a simple channel such that the received signal is distorted by noise and offset mismatch, that is, r = x+v+b1, where x=(x1, x2, . ....

Nonlinearity-modulated single molecule trapping and Raman scattering analysis

Single molecule detection and analysis play important roles in many current biomedical researches. The deep-nanoscale hotspots, being excited and confined in a plasmonic nanocavity, make it possible to simultaneously enhance the nonlinear light-matter interactions and molecular Raman scattering for label-free detections. Here, we...

Binary Block Codes for Noisy Channels with Unknown Offset

Decoders minimizing the Euclidean distance between the received word and the candidate codewords are known to be optimal for channels suffering from Gaussian noise. However, when the stored or transmitted signals are also corrupted by an unknown offset, other decoders may perform better. In particular, applying the Euclidean distance on...

Comparisons of Detection Schemes for Channels with Varying Offset

Minimum Pearson Distance Detection Using a Difference Operator in the Presence of Unknown Varying Offset

We consider noisy data transmission channels with unknown scaling and varying offset mismatch. Minimum Pearson distance detection is used in cooperation with a difference operator, which offers immunity to such mismatch. Pair-constrained codes are proposed for unambiguous decoding, where in each codeword certain adjacent symbol pairs must...

Maximum Likelihood Decoding for Channels with Uniform Noise and Offset

Potential CO2 savings by increasing truck size: A Korean case study

n this paper, we present a method to estimate CO2 reduction potential by increasing the truck size. Trucks are apparently the most preferred freight transport option for most shippers. Therefore, increasing the truck size may be a realizable and practical strategy, except when logistics companies (truck owners) tailor their truck sizes to...

Selection of City Distribution Locations in Urbanized Areas

This paper aims to apply a preference method for selecting optimal city distribution reloading locations in urbanized areas. The focus in the optimization is on trucks entering the urbanized area where the truck can choose between at least two locations with similar distances determined by a specified integer value generated randomly by a given...

Regularity of pairs of positive operators

Systematic design of regular VLSI processor arrays